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SUMMARY NOTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD <br />AUGUST 1, 2018 <br />ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE <br />NOTE: A QUORUM IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETINGS . <br />MEMBERS PRESENT : Randy Marshall (Vice-Chair), Bingham Township Representative; Kim <br />Piracci, At-Large; Randy Marshall, At-Large; Adam Beeman, Cedar Grove Township <br />Representative; Carrie Fletcher, Bingham Township Representative; Patricia Roberts, Cheeks <br />Township Representative; Paul Guthrie, At-Large Chapel Hill Township; David Blankfard, <br />Hillsborough Township Representative; Alexander Gregory, Chapel Hill Township <br />Representative; Lydia Wegman (Chair), At-Large Chapel Hill Township Representative; Buddy <br />Hartley, Little River Township Representative; <br />MEMBERS ABSENT : Laura Nicholson, Eno Township Representative; Hunter Spitzer, At-Large; <br />STAFF PRESENT : Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor; Meredith Kern, Administrative <br />Assistant II <br />AGENDA ITEM 1:Call to Order and Roll Call <br />Planning Board Chair Lydia Wegman called the meeting to order at 7:21 p.m. <br />AGENDA ITEM 2: UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE (UDO) TEXT AMENDMENTS – <br />FEMA FLOOD MAPS - To review and discuss proposed amendments to the UDO regarding <br />FEMA flood maps. <br />PRESENTER : Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor <br />Michael Harvey, Current Planning Supervisor, reviewed that in 2017 the county mailed out over <br />10,000 letters to property owners and 20,000 cards to adjacent property owner because county <br />staff had been tasked with revising flood insurance maps. It is the county’s responsibility to <br />enforce flood damage prevention regulation and also to use the best available flood data. The <br />county and any participant of the National Flood Insurance Program gets Community Rating <br />System points for being more restrictive than the model and doing everything properly. Orange <br />County has a rating of 6, with 10 being a rating for a community that is new to the program and 1 <br />being exceptionally rare, Michael Harvey explained. <br />Michael Harvey reviewed that last year the county took flood map data and turned it into an <br />overlay district, under the advise of the county attorney at the time. Staff wasn’t comfortable with <br />the overlay district. The county’s new attorney is not comfortable with it. So, there is no longer <br />an ordinance for the overlay district but the county still has the data. The advertising of the flood <br />map changes last year cost the county $25,000. <br />FEMA informed the county two months ago that it has tweaked the maps. No property owner in <br />this county has a marked change in the portion of the property in the flood plain but the dates <br />have changed. Everywhere in the ordinance that states Nov. 17, 2017, now needs to state Oct. <br />19, 2018. <br />Michael Harvey explained that the county does not need to hold a public hearing on the maps or <br />mail out thousands of notifications. The county does have to adopt the text amendment by Oct. <br />19 or be suspended from the flood program.